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Speaker 1: minute of it. This rainy Southern California Sunday morning playoff
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Speaker 1: The number to reach me eight three to three two.
Speaker 1: Ask Dean eight three three the numeral two. Ask Dean.
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Speaker 2: Talk to Dan. Hey Dan, welcome home.
Speaker 3: Hi Dean, thank you. How to help you?
Speaker 4: I well, I'm in Burbank and after the winds, I
Speaker 4: found a lot of shingles laying around on the ground.
Speaker 3: So I was kind of alarmed and thinking.
Speaker 4: I've got bear wood on the roof showing with embers
Speaker 4: floating around. So I called some roofers right away, and
Speaker 4: two of them came out and gave me estimates. The
Speaker 4: first one was a big, big corporate company with brochures
Speaker 4: and all that. In fact, they advertised on your station
Speaker 4: and they wanted to look in the attic and inspect that,
Speaker 4: and they gave me their estimate. They said there was
Speaker 4: two layers of shingles already there and they would need
Speaker 4: to rip those off. They don't put shingles on top
Speaker 4: of shingles, so they gave me their estimate. The second
Speaker 4: one was a kind of morph, a regular mom and
Speaker 4: pop kind of roofing company.
Speaker 3: They said there was four layers of shingles on the roof,
Speaker 3: and they said that my roof is.
Speaker 4: Made of one by eight boards, and Burbank code requires
Speaker 4: them to put plywood over the whole roof before they
Speaker 4: put shingles and so and then they said there's an
Speaker 4: a frame kind of structure they have to put behind
Speaker 4: the chimney.
Speaker 3: So that water doesn't settle behind the chimney.
Speaker 4: So I'm like, Okay, I didn't hear anything about this
Speaker 4: from the other one, so I'm kind of confused as too.
Speaker 3: Am I just you know, being taken.
Speaker 4: Or And then the second part of that question is,
Speaker 4: can I, if I've put plywood on the whole thing,
Speaker 4: that's obviously going to be a lot more expensive, can
Speaker 4: I put another layer of layer of shingles on top
Speaker 4: of that and would that meet code?
Speaker 1: Okay, let's break it all down for you here, okay,
Speaker 1: and you can trust this. You can take what I'm
Speaker 1: about to tell you to the bank or you know,
Speaker 1: from the bank, depending on how much it's gonna cost you.
Speaker 1: But here's the truth, my friend, here's the truth. Okay,
Speaker 1: it's not about burd bank, it's not about roofers preferences.
Speaker 1: The the code in California is and this is this
Speaker 1: is actually true everywhere, right. This is part of the
Speaker 1: International Building Code, but ratified in California, absolutely for sure.
Speaker 1: So the code in California for roofing material is you
Speaker 1: can have up to two layers of roofing material on
Speaker 1: your roof, but two is the max. Okay, So if
Speaker 1: you had a single layer roof up there, you wouldn't
Speaker 1: have to, necessarily, your choice, tear it off. You could
Speaker 1: add another layer to it. But once you've got two,
Speaker 1: and whether you've got two or four, it's irrelevant at
Speaker 1: this point. If you are going to update your roof
Speaker 1: and put on new roof on, it is a tear
Speaker 1: off first, absolutely, without question. It's not legal to do
Speaker 1: it any other way. A tear off. So you are
Speaker 1: going to be removing all of the roof that's up
Speaker 1: there in order to put a new roof on. And
Speaker 1: that's not a bad thing. That's a good thing because
Speaker 1: it makes that new roof give it its best start possible. Okay,
Speaker 1: that's question number one. Number two, your your home, being
Speaker 1: an older home, originally had and now you have asphalt
Speaker 1: shingles up there now, Yes, okay, so your home originally, originally,
Speaker 1: originally very likely had wood shake shingles up there and
Speaker 1: was followed up with asphalt at some point. That's why
Speaker 1: the one by six or one by eight slats with
Speaker 1: gaps in between them is up there, because that's back
Speaker 1: in the day, that's how it used to be done.
Speaker 1: That is now also not code. So when the tear
Speaker 1: offf happens, yes, you are good. The part of putting
Speaker 1: the new roof on by code will be to resheathe
Speaker 1: the roof in solid sheathing. Okay, Now they don't have
Speaker 1: to tear off. In fact, they won't tear off the
Speaker 1: one x six is or the one by eights that
Speaker 1: are there. They will tear off the roof down to that,
Speaker 1: and then over on the top of that they will
Speaker 1: ply apply very likely OSB. We call it, you know,
Speaker 1: you can call it plywood. Technically it's not plywood. It's
Speaker 1: a different kind of board. But yes, it's the same
Speaker 1: kind of thing. OSB chipboard, oscillted strand board, that's what
Speaker 1: it stands for uh. They will cover the roof in
Speaker 1: that material, and then that solid material is in fact
Speaker 1: the very best base possible to apply a new asphalt
Speaker 1: composite roof that's going to last you for decades. Okay,
Speaker 1: that's number two. So tear off has to happen, The
Speaker 1: resheting of your roof has to happen. And then during
Speaker 1: the resheeting process, okay, and right before the roofing is handled,
Speaker 1: any obstructions and penetrations through the roof have to be
Speaker 1: flashed properly, properly with flashings, metal flashings, okay, flashings around
Speaker 1: any of the pipes that are coming up, the vents,
Speaker 1: the plumbing vents that are coming up through your roof,
Speaker 1: or the power supply, a goose neck that might be
Speaker 1: coming up through your roof.
Speaker 2: Or.
Speaker 1: Vents from a water heater, or a fern is coming
Speaker 1: up through your roof, or and or the chimney as
Speaker 1: it sits up against the roof, because that flat area
Speaker 1: right behind the chimney, if the roof is pitching down
Speaker 1: onto it, creates a place for water to sit and
Speaker 1: if water sits, inevitably, water will find its way through.
Speaker 2: So we don't want that all right.
Speaker 1: So that a frame structure that you were telling me about.
Speaker 1: It doesn't It's not a big fancy thing, Okay, it's
Speaker 1: a very very small It amounts to a couple of
Speaker 1: pieces of cut plywood put in a triangular fashion there,
Speaker 1: and then the roofing is run over it and it's
Speaker 1: flashed with metal. It's called a cricket. And you can
Speaker 1: write that down because you can talk to your next
Speaker 1: roofer estimate about this. But yeah, typically we will install
Speaker 1: if it wasn't one, there already a cricket behind the
Speaker 1: fireplace the chimney extension, because we don't want water to
Speaker 1: run up against the chimney and run down that said,
Speaker 1: we just wanted to shed to the side so that
Speaker 1: there are no leaks. So, yes, you have to have
Speaker 1: a tear off because you've got more than two layers. Yes,
Speaker 1: you have to have solid sheathing. And of course they're
Speaker 1: gonna build some crickets and or flash the roof properly
Speaker 1: for the new roof that goes on. This is all
Speaker 1: the truth. None of it is crazy heroic costs. This
Speaker 1: is everything I've just described to you is a standard
Speaker 1: tear off and reroof that's what you can just call it.
Speaker 1: It's a standard tear off and reroof and you should
Speaker 1: take a couple three more estimates from from roofers who
Speaker 1: are well vetted in your area and judge them all
Speaker 1: by that information that I just gave you.
Speaker 5: Okay, that that makes sense. That's what they told me
Speaker 5: is the right thing I should. How do I know
Speaker 5: that it was put on properly? Afterwards? Do I check?
Speaker 1: Well, they're gonna they're gonna pull a permit, my friend.
Speaker 1: That's the point the roofer.
Speaker 2: You won't. You don't have to do it. You don't
Speaker 2: have to go down to the city and do it.
Speaker 1: But they part of this thing that again you double
Speaker 1: check with them to make sure you like, this is
Speaker 1: going to be permitted, all right, So they're going to
Speaker 1: go pull a roofing permit. Once the membrane is on,
Speaker 1: it will get inspected. After the tear off, it'll get inspected,
Speaker 1: and it'll be inspected and signed off by the city
Speaker 1: once it's all done. And that's what the city is
Speaker 1: there for, to make sure that they have done everything
Speaker 1: according to code in a workman like manner.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 4: And the pay sper material old membrane they put down
Speaker 4: is there something I should a kind I should use,
Speaker 4: or a kind I should avoid.
Speaker 1: I would avoid roofing paper. And I've got to go
Speaker 1: here because we're pushed up against a break, but I
Speaker 1: would avoid roofing paper. That's very, very old school. A
Speaker 1: lot of roofers still use it. I like self ceiling
Speaker 1: membranes as the underlayment underneath a composite asphalt underneath ball roofs. Actually,
Speaker 1: I like self sealing membranes, membranes where the layers seal
Speaker 1: onto themselves and any penetrations, like all the roofing nails
Speaker 1: seal onto or seal around the nails as they are.
Speaker 1: You know, because your roof's gonna have a million penetrations
Speaker 1: from all the staples and or nails running through it.
Speaker 1: I like the membrane to seal around all of that.
Speaker 1: So some elastomeric, stretchable, givable self ceiling membrane underneath your
Speaker 1: shingle material. Make sure that they're bidding that as well.
Speaker 3: Dan.
Speaker 2: Thanks, thank you for your call, my friend. Good luck
Speaker 2: on that.
Speaker 1: I know you're going to get it right now because
Speaker 1: we've pointed you in the right direction. All right, everybody,
Speaker 1: more of your calls when we return.
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Speaker 2: So this is going to be a quickie. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to rush through the next call. I'm
Speaker 1: just gonna tell you right now ahead of time that
Speaker 1: we may get part way into it and then have
Speaker 1: to take a break because because we want to get
Speaker 1: back on our timing. Here, it's all my fault. It's
Speaker 1: totally my fault. I take full responsibility. All right, let's
Speaker 1: go to the phone's rocky, welcome home.
Speaker 7: How you doing, Dean?
Speaker 1: I'm good, I'm good. I'm enjoying our time talking on
Speaker 1: the phone this morning. How can I help you?
Speaker 7: Okay, So I got a problem with low water pressure
Speaker 7: in the kitchen, and I guess in the house it's
Speaker 7: not that great as well. But since the fires, the
Speaker 7: water pressure has even gotten worse.
Speaker 3: In the kitchen.
Speaker 7: I've started messing around with the valves underneath the faucet there,
Speaker 7: and sure enough, that made it worse and we can't
Speaker 7: I've taken apart all the filters and we still have
Speaker 7: the problem there.
Speaker 3: It's just dripping out.
Speaker 1: Where do you live? Where's your house? In relationship to
Speaker 1: the fires, we.
Speaker 7: Live in someone California, so Eden's you know, not far
Speaker 7: maybe fifteen sixteen miles.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, shouldn't that you shouldn't have too much direct
Speaker 1: effect there.
Speaker 2: I was going to say.
Speaker 1: I mean, if you live, you know, adjacent to one
Speaker 1: of the heavy fire areas, that wouldn't surprise me at
Speaker 1: all if you're having water pressure issues because there's all
Speaker 1: sorts of infrastructure that's all torn up.
Speaker 2: There still leal.
Speaker 7: Our pressure throughout the house is all right, but in
Speaker 7: the kitchen it's like.
Speaker 3: It's not doable.
Speaker 1: Okay, So all right, I got you, I got you,
Speaker 1: I got your boo, we got you covered here. I'm
Speaker 1: going to make two suggestions to you, but we're going
Speaker 1: to do it on the other side of the break.
Speaker 1: So can I pop you on hole real quick?
Speaker 3: Sure? Thing? All right?
Speaker 1: My friend Rocky, you hang tight. Everybody else hang tight.
Speaker 8: Uh.
Speaker 1: And when we come back, we will we will address
Speaker 1: low pressure issues.
Speaker 2: And I have a suspicion about what's going on in Rocky,
Speaker 2: so we'll figure it out, all right.
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Speaker 1: That's me and you have found us right smack dab
Speaker 1: in the middle of an all Calls Sunday morning. It's
Speaker 1: raining outside, it's cloudy, it's overcast, it's cool. It's exactly
Speaker 1: the weather that's southern California needs right now. And we're
Speaker 1: just taking a little pause from all the craziness and
Speaker 1: we're just talking about your home. Anything you want to
Speaker 1: talk about. Eight three three two Ask Dean is the
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Speaker 2: Now on hold.
Speaker 1: My friend Rocky has been having some water pressure issues,
Speaker 1: especially in the kitchen. Rocky, you still with me. I
Speaker 1: am all right, okay. So from time to time, water
Speaker 1: pressure may vary coming into our home, depending on stuff
Speaker 1: that's going on with the city, stuff that's going on
Speaker 1: with our local utilities, and so sometimes there can be
Speaker 1: variations in water pressure, especially during disaster periods in which
Speaker 1: water gets diverted into different places. But you're you're far
Speaker 1: enough away from the fires that you shouldn't be experiencing that.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 1: You did mention that pressure in the kitchen lately has
Speaker 1: been low and that you fiddled with the valves underneath
Speaker 1: the sinks and it got worse. And so here are
Speaker 1: a couple of things to take into consideration. Number One,
Speaker 1: if you've had a lower water pressure situation lately, whole
Speaker 1: house kind of dropping, then you should take a look
Speaker 1: at your pressure.
Speaker 2: Regulator on the outside of the house.
Speaker 1: Some most of the time when a pressure regulator fails,
Speaker 1: it fails to resist high pressure. But there are times
Speaker 1: when pressure regulators can go in the opposite direction and
Speaker 1: they get stuck or they kind of you know, they
Speaker 1: sort of collapse inside in the wrong way, and they
Speaker 1: actually reduce pressure as it comes into the house. So
Speaker 1: right by the main line coming into the house, not
Speaker 1: out the meter, but by the main line near the house,
Speaker 1: there should be a kind of a cone shaped thing
Speaker 1: with what looks like a bolt coming out the top
Speaker 1: of it. That is your pressure regulator for your whole home.
Speaker 1: And you should attempt to fiddle with it a little bit,
Speaker 1: throw a wrench on it, give it a couple of turns,
Speaker 1: or so see if you can't boost the overall pressure
Speaker 1: in the house. But to be aware, we don't want
Speaker 1: the overall pressure in the house to go above eighty PSI.
Speaker 1: I had a pressure regulation call yesterday too, so just
Speaker 1: to let everybody know the way to easily test your pressure,
Speaker 1: your water pressure in your home. There may be a
Speaker 1: spigot right there. I mean, you know, a hose bib
Speaker 1: right there connected to the mainline and so on that
Speaker 1: you could actually screw a very very inexpensive like ten
Speaker 1: dollars at the hardware store or the big box or
Speaker 1: water pressure gauge onto. It's just a dial gauge and
Speaker 1: it screws on like a hose maybe there, or you
Speaker 1: may have one on the side of the house or
Speaker 1: on the back of the house. The key is not
Speaker 1: something out in the yard that's part of the irrigation system.
Speaker 1: What we're looking for is a hose bib that's coming
Speaker 1: out of the side of the wall of the house.
Speaker 1: That one is likely tied into the water pressure that
Speaker 1: the rest of the house is at, so you can
Speaker 1: gauge your pressure that way. That's number one. Number two.
Speaker 1: If it's one area specifically, like the kitchen sink, you
Speaker 1: got good pressure everywhere else, but the kitchen sink has
Speaker 1: lower pressure. Yeah, you could do what kind of a
Speaker 1: look through and see is there any weird kinks. Have
Speaker 1: you know, has the waterline been smashed, you know, up
Speaker 1: in the attic or somewhere relative to the kitchen sink.
Speaker 2: That's pretty rare. It actually is pretty rare.
Speaker 1: And it doesn't matter how far the kitchen sink is
Speaker 1: away from everything else. Pressure is pressure builds in the
Speaker 1: entire system. So it really should be the same as
Speaker 1: the rest of the faucets in the house. So if
Speaker 1: you find that it seems like pressure is lower at
Speaker 1: the sink, it may actually not be pressure. It may
Speaker 1: be flow that's lower. You mentioned you fiddle with the valves.
Speaker 1: Those are called angle stops under the sink, and it
Speaker 1: got worse. That is so common. I can't even tell
Speaker 1: you how common that is. And I'll tell you why.
Speaker 1: Those valves are very very simple, screw based, washer based
Speaker 1: gate valves, essentially the angle stops, and those valves sit
Speaker 1: there for decades, sitting there open. They never get used,
Speaker 1: they never get turned off. I mean, the only time
Speaker 1: you've ever closed those valves and opened them back up
Speaker 1: again is if you've installed a new facet. Otherwise, they
Speaker 1: just sit there, and they sit there, and as they
Speaker 1: sit there, they age, even though they're not moving. Kind
Speaker 1: of think of it like age, like an old person
Speaker 1: needs to move otherwise you're gonna just freeze up, and
Speaker 1: that's what happens. And so chances are, my friend, that
Speaker 1: you went down there and close started to close the
Speaker 1: valve open, closed the valve down, and then you thought
Speaker 1: of trying to reopen it and it got worse. Well,
Speaker 1: chances are you probably did close the valve down partially
Speaker 1: and then when you tried to reopen it, now the
Speaker 1: handle is just spinning or somehow it's actually not reopening.
Speaker 1: So you may have accidentally shut down, you know, a
Speaker 1: portion of the flow to the kitchen faucet because of
Speaker 1: those old angle stops. Those old angle stops probably at
Speaker 1: this point should just be replaced, and you might be
Speaker 1: handy di wire and be able to do that yourself,
Speaker 1: or you call a plumber out and you say, listen,
Speaker 1: I need the angle stops under my sink replaced with
Speaker 1: brand new, nice, full flow functioning ones and then boom again,
Speaker 1: we've got the flow back, and then you'll feel the
Speaker 1: pressure again. Okay, that is my suspicion about the kitchen sink.
Speaker 1: It's my suspicion, but it's not a guarantee. And that
Speaker 1: and then finally, finally, if the whole house is suffering
Speaker 1: from low water pressure, as as a lot of houses
Speaker 1: do actually in their area, they're like.
Speaker 2: Oh, our pressure sucks. It's terrible. It's the worst.
Speaker 1: If it's important to you and you want more, you
Speaker 1: can have more. It's a little bit of an investment.
Speaker 1: It's about the last time I looked at about three
Speaker 1: hundred dollars for the unit itself. But again, out on
Speaker 1: the main, near the main as the water is coming
Speaker 1: into the house, you can actually put a pressure pump
Speaker 1: there that basically detects when pressure falls below a certain
Speaker 1: level the incoming pressure, and actually it will it'll turn
Speaker 1: over and actually pump and increase the pressure in your home.
Speaker 1: So you don't have to rely on what the city
Speaker 1: is handing you. As long as they're giving you water.
Speaker 1: The pump takes over and we'll take care of the
Speaker 1: rest and can keep your pressure at a higher level,
Speaker 1: at your preferred level, even though city pressure might be
Speaker 1: terrible coming into your home. So that was kind of
Speaker 1: a broad brush education about this as a whole. My
Speaker 1: suspicion is, if you've opened up all the faucets already
Speaker 1: and cleared out all the lines and check for debris
Speaker 1: and all of that. If the kitchen is still acting
Speaker 1: up on you and it got worse when you fiddle
Speaker 1: with the angle stops, I would start there with those valves.
Speaker 7: Okay, Dean, Well, I called a plumber and he was
Speaker 7: supposed to be here at nine o'clock and he's here
Speaker 7: at ten o'clock now, so all right here, all right.
Speaker 7: I wanted a little knowledge of what to ask him.
Speaker 7: And thank you, Dean.
Speaker 1: All right, we'll get him on the case and let
Speaker 1: me know it turns out rocky. Thank you so much,
Speaker 1: buddy for your call. Appreciate you, and good luck with that.
Speaker 1: I think you're going to get it resolved. I do
Speaker 1: every I have every confidence that you'll get it worked out.
Speaker 1: But yeah, you just hold his feet to the fire
Speaker 1: and say, hey, nothing crazy, just show me the proof
Speaker 1: of our pressure and change out these angles stops.
Speaker 2: He'll give you good advice. I'm sure.
Speaker 1: I'm sure you got a good guy there. All right, y'all,
Speaker 1: when we come back more of your calls. We're having fun,
Speaker 1: aren't we. I am you are too, I know it.
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Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us on the program today. I am
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Speaker 1: it's been an all calls weekend. We have pumped out
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Speaker 1: the last two or three weeks. And we're just taking
Speaker 1: a just taking a beat, and I want to catch
Speaker 1: up with you. You set the agenda on the show today.
Speaker 1: We got a board full of calls. There's still room
Speaker 1: for you because I pick calls at random. So just
Speaker 1: know that eight three three two ask Dean is the
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Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: And uh, you know, let's get back to the phones,
Speaker 1: shall we. Uh. Let's see here, bump bump bum, Let's
Speaker 1: talk to Judith. Hey, Judith, welcome home. I can I
Speaker 1: can how can I help you?
Speaker 9: Can you hear me?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 8: Oh?
Speaker 9: Hi, yeah, I have a question because you just talked
Speaker 9: about roofing and replacing a roof. I live in an
Speaker 9: association and when it's rained two years ago, I had
Speaker 9: a lot of water coming into the roof, so they
Speaker 9: patched parts of it. Now the association is planning to
Speaker 9: replace the entire the roof for everybody in our association.
Speaker 9: Somebody suggested that because they patched some of my roof,
Speaker 9: they could only replace half of it. Does that make
Speaker 9: sense or they really need to take off and replace the.
Speaker 4: Entire roof all right?
Speaker 1: Somebody from the h away is telling you that they
Speaker 1: because they've already patched some of it, that they aren't
Speaker 1: going to replace it all above your unit. Is that
Speaker 1: what you're saying or is that just a neighbor saying
Speaker 1: that There was.
Speaker 9: Just a neighbor saying that. So I want to be
Speaker 9: ready because I really have some issues association in the past,
Speaker 9: and I don't trust them that much because they want
Speaker 9: to say much.
Speaker 1: Always, homeowners' associations are amongst the most well loved and
Speaker 1: esteemed associations on the planet.
Speaker 2: Are they not? Yeah?
Speaker 1: No, no, they are not just speak uh no. I mean,
Speaker 1: here's the thing. If the HOA has uh they've done
Speaker 1: patches in the past. Oh, by the way, do you
Speaker 1: is it a sloped roof up there above your unit?
Speaker 1: Is it a flat roof? What's going on up there?
Speaker 9: It's a slope roof.
Speaker 2: Okay, it's a slope roof. So yeah, I mean here,
Speaker 2: here's the thing.
Speaker 1: I don't think your neighbor is uh is probably I
Speaker 1: think they're probably sort of reacting in fear.
Speaker 9: Uh.
Speaker 1: Just just call the HOA and verify this with them
Speaker 1: that you guys are you're doing You're redoing everything, right,
Speaker 1: just everything because because and if they are, then then
Speaker 1: they are because honestly, honestly, there aren't. Okay, forget about
Speaker 1: the HOA for a second. Let's just talk about the
Speaker 1: roofer who is going to do the work and therefore
Speaker 1: have to stand behind the work and guarantee the work
Speaker 1: at least maybe not directly you, but through the h away.
Speaker 1: There aren't any roofers out there, any qualified good roofers
Speaker 1: out there that I know, who are going to say, well,
Speaker 1: you know that little area has been patched already, we'll
Speaker 1: just tie into it with our new roof.
Speaker 3: Nah.
Speaker 1: Rufers hate to do that because tying into existing patches.
Speaker 1: It's one thing to patch a roof and trying to
Speaker 1: save the roof and stop a leak.
Speaker 2: It's a whole other thing.
Speaker 1: If we're redoing everything to say, well, we're going to
Speaker 1: redo everything except that section.
Speaker 2: No roofer I know is going to want to do that.
Speaker 1: And so my guess is they're just going to clear
Speaker 1: it all out and start fresh, and you're going to
Speaker 1: get you know, you're not going to get a patchwork
Speaker 1: quilt above you.
Speaker 2: You're just going to get a new roof.
Speaker 9: Okay, well that sounds better.
Speaker 2: Okay, thank you, You're very welcome.
Speaker 3: Judith.
Speaker 1: Yeah, regardless of what the hoa might want. But the
Speaker 1: fact of the matter is, by the way, the hoa
Speaker 1: is not going to be prone to wanting it that
Speaker 1: way either, because it's actually more labor intensive to kind
Speaker 1: of patch around existing patches and blend in stuff than
Speaker 1: to just kind of blow and go just to tear
Speaker 1: it all off, lay down a new waterproofing membrane and
Speaker 1: just get those new shingles on. That's actually what is
Speaker 1: most cost efficient is in this case, what's most cost
Speaker 1: efficient and what's best for your roof are the same thing.
Speaker 1: And so that's why I have a certain level of
Speaker 1: confidence regardless of whether there's a penny pincher in the hoa.
Speaker 1: The fact of the matter is both of these things
Speaker 1: are pointing toward the same results. So I think that's
Speaker 1: why it's going to happen for you. All right, let's
Speaker 1: see if we can at least start another call. Let's
Speaker 1: talk to Julie. Hey, Julie, welcome home.
Speaker 8: Thank you for taking the call. I have a question
Speaker 8: regarding shower doors. I had glass shower doors installed in
Speaker 8: my home about twenty years ago, and.
Speaker 7: I love them.
Speaker 8: But the problem is I have to squeege ee them
Speaker 8: every time I take a shower in order for them
Speaker 8: not to accumulate all the spots. But I have heard
Speaker 8: that there are new shower doors now that have a
Speaker 8: film on them.
Speaker 2: You don't have to do that, this is true.
Speaker 1: Or you certainly don't have to do it as often,
Speaker 1: that's for sure as often.
Speaker 8: Right, So that I was thinking of replacing them. Is
Speaker 8: there a company that just puts the film on or
Speaker 8: should I just replace the whole door?
Speaker 2: Well, that's a great question.
Speaker 1: The answer is yes and yes, and even there's another
Speaker 1: option for you as well. So you got three options here. One,
Speaker 1: there are companies out there who will put a coating
Speaker 1: on your shower doors for you. And and it's a
Speaker 1: what we call a hydrophobic coating, and it simply means
Speaker 1: that it beads water like crazy, and then therefore the
Speaker 1: water runs off of it. And by the way, let
Speaker 1: me just let me just qualify all this. Okay, there
Speaker 1: is no miracle glass out there. Okay, there's no there's
Speaker 1: no there's no miracle glass or miracle coatings out there,
Speaker 1: in which so if anybody is saying you will never
Speaker 1: ever clean this glass again, okay, you just reject that.
Speaker 2: One right out of the gate.
Speaker 1: Okay, exactly here, I have never seen a piece of glass,
Speaker 1: and I've seen some pretty impressive coatings, but I've never
Speaker 1: seen a piece of glass where the water hits it
Speaker 1: and literally just like repels, it just jumps off, okay,
Speaker 1: and leaves nothing behind. So but there are lesser and
Speaker 1: greater amounts of that. And so, yes, there are coatings
Speaker 1: that can be applied after the fact to your glass. Yes,
Speaker 1: that's true. Also true is you know, if you're in
Speaker 1: the mood to replace your shower doors and that's in
Speaker 1: your budget, then you can buy brand new doors with
Speaker 1: the you know, the latest and greatest hydrophobic coatings on them.
Speaker 1: And this is also the true, uh, the truth.
Speaker 2: Three.
Speaker 1: There are some if you're in the you know, di
Speaker 1: y mood, uh, there are some coatings that you can
Speaker 1: get right off the shelf at the local hardware store,
Speaker 1: the big box store that are hydrophobic coatings that you
Speaker 1: can apply yourself. It's not a film. Okay, if you
Speaker 1: think it's like a window tinting, that's not what it is.
Speaker 1: These coatings.
Speaker 8: No, no, no, no no, I just want the coating.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So so you can find these hydrophobic coatings yourself, do
Speaker 1: a little research. You can find them on Amazon, you
Speaker 1: can find them at the big box store. Just do
Speaker 1: a little research around. There's a little elbow grease and
Speaker 1: prep work. You've got to make sure that glass is
Speaker 1: is clean as a whistle and ready to go. And
Speaker 1: you know, there are steps to take. But and chances
Speaker 1: are that coating will if you you know, under harsh cleaning,
Speaker 1: won't last as long as the coatings that come from
Speaker 1: the glass shops. But that doesn't mean that they're going
Speaker 1: to disappear overnight. I mean they'll last a good long while.
Speaker 1: If you take care of that shower door and you'll
Speaker 1: be very happy with them. So that is yet another option.
Speaker 1: You have all three options at your disposal. But yes,
Speaker 1: there are coatings now available for just about anything, by
Speaker 1: the way, that that can make just about any material.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 1: I actually saw once not too long ago, a demonstration
Speaker 1: I think it was at the Builder Show, of a
Speaker 1: of a hydrophobic coating in which they were basically spraying
Speaker 1: them on cotton balls and making cotton balls water resistant.
Speaker 1: And it actually was true. It was actually true. Okay,
Speaker 1: so well then.
Speaker 8: That sounds is if cleaning it like every other week,
Speaker 8: would that be sufficient or should we?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah. But you can toss this, you can
Speaker 1: toss the squeegee.
Speaker 8: Oh that's what I want.
Speaker 2: All right, my friend, Thank you so much.
Speaker 1: You are so welcome. And by the way, just a
Speaker 1: little tip. This is totally going to irritate some people,
Speaker 1: but I just figured i'd do it because I'm in
Speaker 1: the mood.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 1: Uh, if if you've got guests coming over, don't hang
Speaker 1: a squeegee next to the shower glass with a sign
Speaker 1: asking your guests to squeegee your shower. You know what,
Speaker 1: Let it go, Let it go. No hotel hangs a
Speaker 1: squeegee next to the glass and says, uh, please squeegee
Speaker 1: this shower down. Please do our housekeeping for us while
Speaker 1: you're here. You just do that yourself. And you know,
Speaker 1: I kind of feel that way about taking off your
Speaker 1: shoes and squeeging shower glass. Not on the hospitality list,
Speaker 1: just saying I know, I know. Now you're really pissed
Speaker 1: off at me. That's fine, that's fine. It's just my opinion.
Speaker 1: Come over to my house. I will never make you
Speaker 1: squeegee my glass. And that's not a euphemism, it's just
Speaker 1: straight up that's the way it is.
Speaker 2: All right.
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